Okay, the difference between a midwife, a doula and an OB, very important distinctions to make now. A midwife and an obstetrician are trained professionals who are what we call birth attendants. They can actually assist in the delivery of your child. They are medical professionals. There are midwives who are trained first as nurses, certified nurse midwives, and there are also lay midwives. They do have very different training but they do have a sense of training in the skills required to understand the physiology of pregnancy, labor, delivery, some of the complications that might occur. An obstetrician is an MD who has specialty training again in the same but also in the more high risk surgical problems, the more high risk medical problems, and that person, that doctor, would deliver in a hospital setting most commonly, sometimes a birthing center. A midwife will deliver in any of those settings sometimes depending on the location and what´s going on in their area. A doula is a trained professional who is non medical. They are there to assist and support. They are not delivering the baby. They are not medical personnel. They are there to help but not to diagnose and treat.